Maggie is a deadly enemy (Picture: Danielle Baguley/ITV)
Crossing Coronation Street’s sharpest battle axe Maggie Driscoll (Pauline McLynn) isn’t conducive to ones health. If you don’t believe us, ask her husband…
…oh wait, you can’t. She killed him.
There are very few lengths she wouldn’t go to in order to protect her family. The acid-tongued landlady even framed a homeless man after her grandson Will (Lucas Hodgson-Wale) viciously attacked Daniel Osbourne (Rob Mallard) and used it as leverage to wheedle her way back into her son, Ben’s (Aaron McCusker) life after she tried to vanquish Eva Price (Catherine Tyldesley) from his life with an incredibly cruel Christmas Day stunt.
While she failed in that attempt to rid herself and her son of Eva, she’s continued to torment her, delighting in making her life difficult at every possible opportunity.
It takes a brave woman to pursue a Driscoll boy, knowing it’ll likely earn the wrath of grandma dearest. Lauren Bolton’s (Cait Fitton) pretty hard though, isn’t she?
Lauren and Ollie have started dating… (Picture: ITV)
…and things have been going well (Picture: ITV)
It’s been a quiet period for our Lauren of late. After crash landing onto the cobbles as the daughter of a far-right extremist group leader, she later got involved with evil solicitor Joel Deering (Calum Lill) and became pregnant with his child before bashing his head in.
Yeah, admittedly, the girl deserved a break, didn’t she?
After catching the eye of Ollie Driscoll (Raphael Akuwudike), who’d not long been dumped by Dee-Dee Bailey (Channique Sterling-Brown), the two struck up a new romance over a couple of dates. There’s been some hiccups of course, but isn’t there always?
Maggie is not a fan of Lauren (Picture: Danielle Baguley/ITV)
She doesn’t want her anywhere near her grandson (Picture: Danielle Baguley/ITV)
As sparks continue to fly between Lauren and Ollie, they’re both hopeful that said sparks could turn into a fully fledged, romantic flame. Not if Maggie has anything to say about it, though.
With Lauren working at the Rover’s as a barmaid, Maggie thinks she’s got the measure of her, and in her opinion, she’s simply not good enough for her grandson, and she’s unprepared to let it lie.
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She’s not too ashamed to admit it either, as she freely admits to both Ben and Eva that she’s actively working against them, altering the rota to scupper their planned date and keep them apart.
Will Lauren regret crossing Maggie? (Picture: Danielle Baguley/ITV)
She’s not backwards in coming forward, either. When speaking with Ollie, she lets forth with the vitriol and makes her feelings perfectly clear: he could do much, much better for himself than Lauren and she’s in no way, shape or form good enough for him.
With Ollie clearly incredibly into Lauren, how will he respond to his grandma’s actions? Will he fall in line with the matriarch? Or follow his heart?
And what of Lauren? She’s feisty, tough as nails and already seen off one psycho, but has she met her match in Maggie?
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